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Exhibition — illustrative of the mode of the disposal of the dead in 

 vogue among the aborigines in the neighbourhood of Alligator 

 River, Port Essington. 



Mr. Baker showed drawings and specimens of the Tarrielia 

 referred to in his paper, together with microscopic preparations. 



Professor Wilson and Dr. Martin showed series of micro-photo- 

 graphs, sections, and dissections illustrative of the anatomical 

 characters of the muzzle of the Ornithorhynchns, described in 

 their papers. 



Mr. A. Sidney Olliff exhibited photographs of some remarkable 

 native gods at Banks Island in the New Hebrides. 



Mr. John Mitchell communicated the following " Note on the 

 occurrence of certain fossils in previously unrecorded localities in 

 N.8. VV., with remarks on the correlation of certain beds in the 

 Newcastle and lUawarra districts." 



Thimifehlia odontopter aides, Feistni. — Some months back I 

 oljtained a good specimen of this fossil from a cutting on the main 

 Southern Road at Razorback. Long ago the Rev. W. B. Clarke 

 1 ecorded it from Clark's Hill near Cobbity, associated with several 

 other fossil fei-ns that have not since been met with by any other 

 collector ; and doubts are entertained in some quarters whether 

 in the case of Odontopteris micropkylln, McCoy, there was not a 

 mistake in quoting it from this locality. Specimens which I have 

 lately collected at Glenlee will tend to confirm Clarke's quotation. 

 Razorback is about eight miles southerly from Clark's Hill and 

 on the same horizon of the Wianamatta series. I have obtained 

 what appear to be fragments of the same fossil from a railway 

 cutting near Glenlee. 



MacroUenurpterls. — I have collected several specimens of this 

 fossil from the railway cutting opposite Glenlee homestead, con- 

 tained in a very dark friable carbonaceous shale. 



Tcenio]Aeri^. — From a railway cutting near Glenlee. 



